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Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878 – October 8, 1914) was an American poet. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Rochester, New York. Her parents were the businesswoman Adelaide T. Crapsey and the Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who moved from New York City to Rochester.
The modern form, known as American cinquain [1] [2] is inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka [3] [4] and is akin in spirit to that of the Imagists. [5]In her 1915 collection titled Verse, published a year after her death, Adelaide Crapsey included 28 cinquains. [6]
Adelaide Crapsey, Verse, [13] featuring her invention of the quintain, a five-line form; T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock first published in Poetry magazine; John Gould Fletcher, Irradiations: Sand and Spray [13] Ring Lardner, Bib Ballads [13] Archibald MacLeish, Songs for a Summer's Day [13] Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River ...
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Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two-line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, [8] first published in 1915. By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.
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She graduated from Smith College, [2] where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey. [3] She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse, [4] Measure (1921–1925), [5] [6] and was an editor at E. P. Dutton. [7] She was a friend of Louise Bogan, [8] and Gore Vidal. [9] She corresponded with George Dillon. [10] She was a finalist for a ...